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My blog has been changed to make it more appealing for those who have New England ancestors and want to see the area through photos. Things I’ll include are typical white New England churches, libraries showing their genealogical collection, historical societies, cemeteries, war memorials, in general, anything to do with history.

For four years I’ve blogged mostly about my personal genealogy in New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire), New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. I still will, can’t forget my own roots.

Please check out the labels on the right side for articles. The header tabs at the top are a work in progress.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The History and Genealogy collection was on the 4th floor. It is kept locked, so a librarian had to take me up there, I also needed permission from the director to take photos, only stipulation was that I don't take pictures of people.

The room is larger than shown in these few photos, but I wanted to show more of the old sections of the Library. You'll see why.

View of the library from the cemetery across the driveway. Notice the two British flags, in honor of two who died near that spot during the Revolutionary War.

AmericanREVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERSKnown to beBuried in This Cemetery

JOHN ADAMS

THOMAS HADLEY

JOSEPH ADAMS

ELIAS HAVEN

WILLIAM ADAMS

JOHN HILL

JOHN BACON

THOMAS HILL

JOSEPH BALCH

JOSEPH LOCKE

JOSEPH BELKNAP, JR.

AMOS MILLS

NATHANIEL CHADWICK

JONATHAN PARKER

NATHAN CHAMBERLIN

AMMI CUTTER

BENJAMIN PEIRCE

SOLOMON PEIRCE

AMMI CUTTER, JR.

JAMES PERRY

SAMUEL CUTTER

ABEDNECO
RAMSDELL

WILLIAM CUTTER

JEDUTHAN
WELLINGTON

WILLIAM DICKSON

SAMUEL WHITTEMORE

WILLIAM FLINT

JOHN WINSHIP

EPHRAIM FROST

JASON RUSSELL

SAMUEL FROST

JASON WINSHIP

STEPHEN FROST

JABEZ WYMAN

Erected byMenotomy Chapter Daughtersof the American Revolution1941

Old front entrance on Massachusetts Ave. Garden to the right, see below.

A list of all the libraries, with genealogy departments, I've visited in New England and New York is below. All are linked to my posts.

Below is my 7th great-grandaunt's tombstone. She married first to Peter Jenison (see last week's post), and after his death, she married Joseph Brooks. She, her 2nd husband and child were buried together in this cemetery.

Here Lies Buried

The
Body of

Mrs
Jane Brooks

Consort of

Joseph
Brooks

Who Decd
Novr

The 16
A D

1753 in The 70

Year of
Her Age.

Here Lyes Interred

The Body of Mr.

Joseph Brooks of Lincoln

Who Departed This Life

Sept 17 1759 in Ye

78 Years of His Age.

(Joseph Brooks was my first cousin 9 times removed.)

Here Lies Buried

Ye Body of

Joseph Brooks Junr

Only Son of Mr

Joseph and Mrs Jane

Brooks Who Decd

Septmbr Ye 7th

Anno Dom 1749

in ye 24th Year

of His Age.

Brooks plot above.When you turn around, you'll see this lovely field.

While driving around, I came across a memorial to five British soldiers, shown below. Since the cemetery is in Lincoln, the town where Paul Revere was captured by the British soldiers (then released). I shouldn't have been surprised to see it because other markers for British soldiers are in Concord as well.

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I've been a retired, quiet, genealogy fanatic for 23 years. It's a hobby I do for fun and to help others.
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